10 Wrestlers Who Allegedly Got Other Wrestlers FIRED

1. The Kliq / Shane Douglas

Dean Douglas
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These days, Shawn Michaels is more concerned with blowing small defenceless animals to bits than the career of one of his peers, but back in 1995 etc. etc.

That's a thin excuse for a runner, since it was Razor Ramon and his withering assessment of Shane Douglas' work that made his dire run untenable. The Kliq didn't cut off his leg, but they were the cause of the gangrene.

The thing about Dean Douglas, it must be stated, is that the character and the performance was bobbins. This isn't a the-f*ck-did-you-do-that-for tale, like the Kliq's attempts to sabotage the awesome Bigelow and the underrated Savio Vega (not that it's cool to ruin the livelihood of any human being, whether they played a high-ranking college professor or somebody actually good with flames on his gear and tattoos on his skull).

Douglas was miscast, and he didn't do well enough to get a better repackage. This was all drastically removed from the best of the Franchise. Those drab, quiet and long "You get an F" segments were the f*cking sh*ts, and he just wasn't that great in the ring.

Razor said he couldn't work, Shawn wouldn't work with him, and Vince, always one to listen to the Kliq, thought Dean was mugging him off with a worked injury before the inevitable.

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